Drusilla

Each wife was from a royal family.

His wife at this time was Drusilla, a Jewess who was the daughter of Herod Agrippa I and sister of Herod Agrippa II.

She previously had been married to the king of Emesa until Felix, with the help of Simon the magician, won her hand.

Felix was well-versed in Jewish customs, not only because his wife was a Jewess, but also because he had spent a number of years living in Judea.

All of Paul's interactions with people, whether he is before King Agrippa or whether he is speaking to Felix or whether he's going into the Areopagus in Athens to speak to people, are worth studying because we get to understand that he adapts the way that he teaches his message depending on the audience.

And so when he's speaking to Felix prior to speaking to King Agrippa, it says in the book of Acts, "After some days, Felix came with his wife, Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, 'Go away for the present.

When I get an opportunity, I will summon you.'" And so those three words, Felix was alarmed, tell us something about what people found disturbing about the message about Jesus.

See Selection thirty-nine, seeds of the war sown under the last of the procurators, rise of the Sicarii.

And again, of Agrippa the Second and the marriage of Felix and Drusilla.

While the account of the Cypriot magician and his influence over Felix strangely resembles that of Elymas and Sergius Paulus, Acts thirteen, six, and following to the end.

See Selection thirty-six, Agrippa the Second, Felix and Drusilla.

We may read, moreover, of the death of James, the Lord's brother.

Selection thirty-seven, the death of James, the Lord's brother.

Page seventy-one.

Selection thirty-six.